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Recent developments in information and communication technology have motivated much of the interest in supply chain management (SCM). Today, a multitude of software providers offer solutions that support the integrated planning and control of inter-and crossorganisational supply chains, so called supply chain management systems. This paper investigates cunent trends in information systems for supply chain management. The authors present a model to systematically describe supply chain management activities. A survey among providers of SCM systems presents details about the performance of currently available SCM systems, different system philosophies, as well as their prevalence in different industries.

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